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Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City, commonly known as Saigon or by the abbreviations HCMC or HCM, is the largest city in and the former capital of the Republic of Vietnam.
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  • Type: City with 9,170,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Vietnam
  • Also known as: “HCMC”, “Ho Chi Minh”, “Hôchiminh Ville”, “Prey Nokor”, “Sai Gon”, “Sài Gòn”, “Saïgon”, “SG”, “T.P. Hồ Chí Minh”, “Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh”, “Thành-Phô Hồ Chí Minh”, and “TP Ho Chi Minh”
  • Historically known as: “Gia Định” and “Saigon”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ben Thanh Market and Independence Palace.

Marketplace
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Bến Thành Market is located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in . The market is one of the earliest surviving structures in the city and an important symbol of the city.

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The , also publicly and officially known as the Reunification Convention Hall or simply Reunification Hall, is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, .

Town hall
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, officially called the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council and People's Committee Head Office, is the city hall of Ho Chi Minh City, .

Ho Chi Minh City

Latitude
10.7755° or 10° 46′ 32″ north
Longitude
106.7021° or 106° 42′ 8″ east
Population
9,170,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Abbreviation
“HCMC”
Abbreviation
“Hcm”
Abbreviation
“HCM City”
IATA airport code
SGN
United Nations Location Code
VN SGN
Open location code
7P28QPG2+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369486734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1566083
Wiki­data ID
Q1854
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Ho Chi Minh City” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kota Ho Chi Minh”
  • Afrikaans: “Ho Chi Minh-stad”
  • Albanian: “Ho Çi Min”
  • Albanian: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Qytet”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti Ho Chi Minh”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti Ho Çi Min”
  • Amharic: “ሆ ቺ ሚን ከተማ”
  • Arabic: “مدينة هو تشي منه”
  • Arabic: “مدينة هو تشي مينه”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat Ho Chi Minh”
  • Armenian: “Հոշիմին”
  • Arpitan: “Ho Chi Minh Vela”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá Ho Chi Minh”
  • Asturian: “Ciudad Ho Chi Minh”
  • Aymara: “Ho Chi Min marka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ho Şi Min”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hoşimin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xo Şi Min”
  • Balinese: “Kota Ho Chi Minh”
  • Bambara: “Ho Chi Minh-Ville”
  • Banjar: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Bashkir: “Хошимин”
  • Basque: “Ho Chi Minh Hiria”
  • Bavarian: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt”
  • Bavarian: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stod”
  • Belarusian: “Сайгон”
  • Belarusian: “Хашымін”
  • Bengali: “সাইগন”
  • Bengali: “হো চি মিন শহর”
  • Bengali: “হো চি মিন সিটি”
  • Betawi: “Ho Ciming Kota”
  • Bislama: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Bosnian: “Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Bosnian: “Ho Ši Min Grad”
  • Breton: “Kêr Ho-Chi-Minh”
  • Buginese: “Ho Ci Ming”
  • Buginese: “Kota Hociming”
  • Buginese: “ᨀᨚᨈ ᨖᨚᨌᨗᨆᨗ”
  • Buginese: “ᨖᨚ ᨌᨗ ᨆᨗ”
  • Bulgarian: “Сайгон”
  • Bulgarian: “Хошимин”
  • Burmese: “ဟိုချီမင်းစီးတီး”
  • Burmese: “ဟိုချီမင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat Ho Chi Minh”
  • Catalan: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Ho Chi Minh”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayang Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Central Bikol: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Central Kanuri: “Berni Ho Chi Minh”
  • Chamorro: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad Ho Chi Minh”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Chechen: “Хошимин”
  • Cheyenne: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Chinese: “Hồ Chí Minh Chhī”
  • Chinese: “嘉定”
  • Chinese: “柴棍”
  • Chinese: “胡志明城庯”
  • Chinese: “胡志明市”
  • Chinese: “西貢”
  • Chinese: “西贡”
  • Chuvash: “Хошимин”
  • Cornish: “Cita Ho Chi Minh”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ho Şi Min”
  • Croatian: “Grad Ho Chi Minh”
  • Croatian: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Croatian: “Ho Ši Min”
  • Croatian: “Saigon” (historical)
  • Czech: “Ho Či Minovo Město”
  • Danish: “HCMC”
  • Danish: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Danish: “Ho Chi Minh-byen”
  • Danish: “Sài Gòn”
  • Danish: “Saigon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Dutch: “Ho Chi Minhstad”
  • Dutch: “Saigon”
  • Eastern Mari: “Хошимин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هو تشى مينه”
  • Esperanto: “Ho-Ĉi-Min-urbo”
  • Estonian: “Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Ewe: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Extremaduran: “Ciá Ho Chi Minh”
  • Faroese: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Fijian: “Ho Chi Minh siti”
  • Fijian: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Finnish: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Finnish: “Hồ Chí Minhin kaupunki”
  • French: “Chợ Lớn”
  • French: “Gia Định”
  • French: “HCMV”
  • French: “Hô Chi Minh Ville”
  • French: “Hô Chi Minh-ville”
  • French: “Hô Chi Minh-Ville”
  • French: “Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville”
  • French: “Prey Nokor”
  • French: “Sài Thành”
  • French: “Saigon”
  • French: “Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh”
  • French: “Saïgon” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Citât di Ho Chi Minh”
  • Fulah: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Gagauz: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Galician: “Cidade Ho Chi Minh”
  • Gan Chinese: “胡志明市”
  • Ganda: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Georgian: “ხოშიმინი”
  • Georgian: “ჰოშიმინი”
  • German: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt”
  • German: “Saigon” (historical)
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐍉 𐍄𐍃𐌷𐌹 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌷 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲”
  • Greek: “Σαϊγκόν”
  • Greek: “Χο Τσι Μιν”
  • Greek: “Χο Τσι Μινχ”
  • Guarani: “Táva Ho Chi Minh”
  • Gujarati: “હો ચી મિન શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “હો ચી મિન સિટી”
  • Haitian: “Hô-Chi-Minh-Vil”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hồ Chí Minh Sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Birnin Ho Chi Minh”
  • Hawaiian: “Hosimin”
  • Hebrew: “הו צ’י מין סיטי”
  • Hiligaynon: “Dakbanwa Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Hindi: “हो ची मिन्ह शहर”
  • Hungarian: “Ho Si Minh-város”
  • Hungarian: “Prey Nokor”
  • Hungarian: “Saigon”
  • Hungarian: “Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Icelandic: “Ho Chi Minh-borg”
  • Icelandic: “Hồ Chí Minh-borg”
  • Icelandic: “Saígon”
  • Ido: “Ho Chi Minh urbo”
  • Ido: “Ho-Chi-Minh-urbo”
  • Igbo: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Iloko: “Siudad Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Ho Chi Minh”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Ho Chi Minh”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Interlingua: “Citate de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Interlingue: “Ho Chi Minh Cité”
  • Inupiaq: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Inupiaq: “Ho Chi Minh-gum Iniqpaŋa”
  • Irish: “Cathair Ho Chi Minh”
  • Italian: “Città di Ho Chi Minh”
  • Italian: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Italian: “Saigon”
  • Japanese: “サイゴン”
  • Japanese: “プレイノコール”
  • Japanese: “ホー・チ・ミン市”
  • Japanese: “ホーチミン・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ホーチミン”
  • Japanese: “ホーチミンシティ”
  • Japanese: “ホーチミン市”
  • Japanese: “城舗胡志明”
  • Japanese: “東洋のパリ”
  • Japanese: “柴棍”
  • Japanese: “胡志明市”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Ho Chi Minh”
  • Kabyle: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ho Chi Minh Illoqarfik”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊ ಚಿ ಮಿನ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xoshimin”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Хошимин”
  • Kashubian: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Kazakh: “Сайгон”
  • Kazakh: “Хошимин”
  • Khmer: “ក្រុងព្រៃនគរ”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងហូជីមិញ”
  • Kikuyu: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Kinaray-A: “Hangbanwa Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Kirghiz: “Хошимин”
  • Kölsch: “Ho Chi Minh-Stadt”
  • Kongo: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Korean: “호지명시”
  • Korean: “호찌민 시”
  • Korean: “호찌민”
  • Korean: “호찌민시”
  • Korean: “호치민”
  • Kurdish: “Bajarê Ho Chi Minh”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad Ho Chi Minh”
  • Lao: “ນະຄອນໂຮ່ຈີ່ມິນ”
  • Lao: “ເມືອງໂຮ່ຈິມິນ”
  • Latgalian: “Ho Chi Minh Mīsts”
  • Latgalian: “Hošimins”
  • Latin: “Hochiminhopolis”
  • Latvian: “Hošimina”
  • Latvian: “Saigona”
  • Lezghian: “Хошимин”
  • Ligurian: “Çitæ de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Ligurian: “Ho Chi Minh Cittæ”
  • Limburgan: “Ho Chi Minhstad”
  • Lingala: “Ho Chi Minh Engumba”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Site de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Literary Chinese: “胡志明城庯”
  • Lithuanian: “Hošiminas”
  • Lojban: “Ho Chi Minh tcadu”
  • Lombard: “Cità de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Low German: “Ho Chi Minh-stad”
  • Low German: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Ho Chi Minh město”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stad”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Macedonian: “Хо Ши Мин”
  • Malagasy: “Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville”
  • Malay: “Bandar Raya Ho Chi Minh”
  • Malayalam: “സയ്ഗോൺ”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോ ചി മിൻ നഗരം”
  • Maltese: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Manx: “Caayr Ho Chi Minh”
  • Maori: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Maori: “Hokimina Tāone”
  • Marathi: “हो चि मिन्ह शहर”
  • Marathi: “हो चि मिन्ह सिटी”
  • Mazanderani: “هوشی مینه سیتی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hù Cé-mìng Chê”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hù-cé-mìng-chê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hồ Chí Minh Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘ Chì-bêng Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sài Gòn”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Ho Chi Minh”
  • Minangkabau: “Koto Ho Chi Minh”
  • Mingrelian: “ხოშიმინი”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰოშიმინი”
  • Mirandese: “Cidade de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Mirandese: “Ho Chi Minh Cidade”
  • Moksha: “Хошимин”
  • Mongolian: “Хо Ши Мин хот”
  • Mongolian: “Хошимин”
  • Narom: “Ho Chi Minh Ville”
  • Nauru: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Navajo: “Ndikʼąłchíʼítah”
  • Neapolitan: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ho Chi Minh-stää”
  • Northern Sami: “Hồ Chí Minh gávpot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ho Chi Minh-byen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ho Chi Minh-byen”
  • Norwegian: “Ho Chi Minh-byen”
  • Novial: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat Ho Chi Minh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hô Chi Minh Vila”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ho Chi Minh Burg”
  • Oriya: “ସାଇଗନ”
  • Ossetian: “Хошимин”
  • Pampanga: “Lakanbaleng Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੋ ਚੀ ਮਿਨ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੋ ਚੀ ਮਿਨ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ‎”
  • Papiamento: “Saigon”
  • Papiamento: “Siudat Ho Chi Minh”
  • Pedi: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Ho Chi Minh-Schtadt”
  • Persian: “هوشی‌مین”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Ho-Chi Minh-Schdadt”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt”
  • Picard: “Ho Chi Minh Vile”
  • Piemontese: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Polish: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Polish: “Sajgon”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Ho Chi Minh”
  • Portuguese: “HCMC”
  • Portuguese: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Portuguese: “Hôchiminh Ville”
  • Portuguese: “Sai Gon”
  • Portuguese: “Sài Gòn”
  • Portuguese: “Saigão”
  • Portuguese: “Saigon”
  • Portuguese: “Saïgon”
  • Portuguese: “Thành-Phô Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Quechua: “Ho Chi Minh llaqta”
  • Romanian: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Romanian: “Ho Și Min”
  • Romansh: “Citad Ho Chi Minh”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хошимин”
  • Russian: “Сайгон”
  • Russian: “Хошимин”
  • Rusyn: “Хошимин”
  • Samoan: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Samogitian: “Hošėmins”
  • Sango: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱳ ᱪᱤ ᱢᱤᱱ ᱥᱤᱴᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Sardinian: “Tzitade de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stääd”
  • Scots: “Ho Chi Minh Ceety”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Serbian: “Ho-Chi-Minh”
  • Serbian: “Град Хо Ши Мин”
  • Serbian: “Сајгон”
  • Serbian: “Хо Ши Мин (град)”
  • Serbian: “Хо Ши Мин Град”
  • Serbian: “Хо Ши Мин”
  • Serbian: “Хо-Ши-Мин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Shona: “Guta reHo Chi Minh”
  • Sicilian: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Silesian: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Sindhi: “هو چي منھ شهر”
  • Sinhala: “හෝ චි මින් නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Hočiminovo Mesto”
  • Slovenian: “Hošiminh”
  • Somali: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هوشی‌مین”
  • Southern Sotho: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Ho Chi Minh”
  • Spanish: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Spanish: “Saigón”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Sundanese: “Kota Ho Chi Minh”
  • Swahili: “Mji wa Ho Chi Minh”
  • Swati: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Swedish: “Ho Chi Minh-staden”
  • Swedish: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Swedish: “Saigon”
  • Swedish: “Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Swiss German: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Ho Chi Minh”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Tajik: “Хошимин”
  • Tajik: “Ҳошимин”
  • Tajik: “Шаҳри Ҳошимин”
  • Tamil: “ஹோ சி மின் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “ஹோ சி மின் ஸிடி”
  • Tatar: “Хошимин”
  • Tatar: “Һошимин”
  • Telugu: “హోచిమిన్ నగరం”
  • Telugu: “హోచిమిన్ సిటీ”
  • Tetum: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Thai: “นครโฮจิมินห์”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ཀྲི་མིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt”
  • Tsonga: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Tswana: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Tumbuka: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Turkish: “Ho Chi Minh Kenti”
  • Turkmen: “Ho Şi Miň Şäheri”
  • Twi: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Udmurt: “Хошимин”
  • Uighur: “سايگون”
  • Ukrainian: “Сайгон”
  • Ukrainian: “Хошимін”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ho Chi Minh město”
  • Urdu: “ہو چی من شہر”
  • Urdu: “ہو چی من”
  • Uzbek: “Xoshimin”
  • Venetian: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Venetian: “Sità de Ho Chi Minh”
  • Veps: “Hošimin”
  • Vietnamese: “Gia Định”
  • Vietnamese: “HCM”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Vietnamese: “Sài Gòn” (historical)
  • Vietnamese: “Sài Thành”
  • Vietnamese: “Saigon”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Vietnamese: “Tp. HCM”
  • Vietnamese: “Tp.HCM”
  • Vietnamese: “TPHCM”
  • Vlaams: “Ho Chi Minhstad”
  • Vlax Romani: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Volapük: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Võro: “Ho Chi Minh”
  • Walloon: “Hô Chí Minh Veye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Siyudad Hồ Chí Minh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Ho Chi Minh”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Ho Chi Minh”
  • Welsh: “Saigon”
  • Western Frisian: “Ho Chi Minh stêd”
  • Western Frisian: “Ho Chi Minhstêd”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوچی منہ شہر”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوچی منہ”
  • Wolof: “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • Wu Chinese: “胡志明市”
  • Yakut: “Хошимин”
  • Yiddish: “הא טשי מין שטאט”
  • Yue Chinese: “嘉定”
  • Yue Chinese: “胡志明”
  • Yue Chinese: “胡志明市”
  • Yue Chinese: “西貢”
  • Zeeuws: “Ho Chi Minh stad”
  • Zhuang: “Ho Chi Minh Si”
  • Zulu: “IHochiminh”
  • “Āltepētl Ho Chi Minh”
  • “Ho Chi Minh”
  • “Ho Chi Minh City”
  • “Hošėmins”
  • “Kota Ho Chi Minh”

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